6S The Weekly Kerala, 10 May 1958. At this stage Mannam made his first public attacks on the Kerala Education Rill.

69 Malayalee, 29 March 1959.

70 Malayalee, 4 May 1959.

71 Malayalee. 28 April 1959.

72 Kerala Janatha, 30 May 1959

7> Father Vadakkan in an interview with tlie author, July 1973.

74 This assertion that no one of them did ever or would ever have joined the low-class and low-caste Christophers was reiterated by several middle-class anti-communist agitators (Interviews in July and August 1973).

82 The most illuminating story of the clamping down of presidential rule can be found in B N Mullick, My Tears with Nehru, 1948-1964, New Delhi 1972, pp 348 ff.

^ For the election results and analysis. Election Commission of India, Report of the General Elections to the Kerala Legislative Assembly, 1960; K G Krishna Murthy and G Lakshmana Rao, Political Preferences in Kerala, New Delhi 1968; KP Bhagat, The Kerala Mid-term Election of 1960 (The Communist Party's Conquest of New Positions), Bombay 1962; and Robert Hardgrave, in Wciner and Field, Electoral Politics in the Indian States, New Delhi 1975, pp 167-209.